Industrial Property Regulations, 2002
means those technical features that define a contribution
that each of the claimed inventions, considered as a
whole, makes over the prior art.
Amendment or
division.
20. (1) This section applies with respect to an amendment
or division of an application under section 36 of the Act.
(2) A request for amendment or division of an
application shall be in Form IP 5.
(3) If the request is to amend a name, address or
other contact information, the request shall be in
Form IP 6.
(4) The Managing Director may require proof that
it is appropriate to make the requested
amendment to a name, address or other contact
information.
(5) The following apply with respect to an
amendment —
(a)
the amendment shall be in the form of a
letter of explanation and pages to replace
pages of the application;
(b)
the letter of explanation shall draw
attention to the differences between any
new pages and the pages being replaced;
and
(c)
the letter of explanation shall specify any
pages that are to be removed from the
application without being replaced.
(6) If an application is divided under section 36(2)
of the Act —
(a)
the filing date for each divisional
application shall be the filing date of the
initial application;
(b)
any declaration of priority in the initial
application shall be deemed to be included
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